Updated 11:15 am, Monday, February 17, 2014

A 73-year-old Huffman man who is charged with sexually assaulting a child has been accused of pointing a gun earlier this month at a television news crew outside his home.

Larry Ricketts is charged with aggravated assault after the incident Thursday at 200 Blue Lake Drive, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office. Ricketts, deputies added, is also charged with aggravated sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl in an unrelated case.

Deputies said KTRK reporter Demond Fernandez and videographer Gerzain Garcia went to Ricketts' house seeking his on-camera comment after he had been charged two days previously in the sexual-assault case against him.

After Fernandez knocked on the door and spoke with Ricketts, the Huffman man alledgedly pointed a handgun at the news team, deputies said. Ricketts told the news team to get off his property, according to court documents filed in the case. The news team left.